photo: Teacher Traveler via flickr More than 80% of new farmland in the tropics cultivated over the last two decades of the 20th century was carved out of tropical forests, according to new research published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences . Between 1980 and 2000, globally the amount of
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80% of New Farmland in Tropics Carved From Forests Between 1980-2000 – Land the Size of Alaska Cleared
